@billliveshere @Koigal Yes, we are living in interesting times, even if they are not exactly the most fun times. I have personally seen a massive change here in UT where the only companies who can’t find workers, are the ones who refuse to pay the $15 living wage, nor benefits. I laugh at the idiocy, futility, and contempt of those companies. This underground, employee-rights revolution proves we don’t need the feds to raise the minimum wage; we can simply enforce it by refusing to work for less. I have certainly raised my salary requirements.
Minimum wage is the same $7.25 now that it was when I was 18. Now I’m 45, and it’s still $7.25. To exceed the current federal poverty line, one must earn $8.19/hour. Absurd: someone who earns minimum wage falls below the federal poverty line?! So inappropriate and cruel. I wish Biden would have tackled minimum wage before trains and bridges.
I make much more than minimum wage, but I don’t live much differently than I did when I was 18 earning $7.25/hour because the cost of living is now so ridiculously high. I actually think minimum wage should be $25/hour. Get with the times, government. Everything from a McDonald’s combo meal to groceries to gasoline to rent costs 2-4x as much money as it did when I was 18. It’s time for major wage and salary adjustments.
Or, companies could stop being so profit-greedy and lower their prices, but we all know that will never happen.
Yes, @billliveshere , we really do live in the United Countries of America, and not the United States of America. Most states are the size of countries and have as much local culture as would a neighboring nation. We are 50 countries, which is a great part of why America is so complicated.
You and I can feel for one another, living in such weird states… errr, countries.